Usually means: Team sport using hands, goal-oriented.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word handball:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. handball: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. handball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. handball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. handball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. handball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Handball, handball: Wordnik
  7. handball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. handball: Wiktionary
  9. handball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. handball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. handball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Handball, handball: Dictionary.com
  13. Handball (Australian rules football), Handball (Four Square), Handball (disambiguation), Handball (football), Handball (school), Handball (soccer), Handball (sport), Handball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. handball: Rhymezone
  15. handball: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. handball: Free Dictionary
  17. handball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. handball: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. handball: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handball: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. handball, handball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. handball: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Handball: Sports Definitions

(Note: See handballing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
noun:  (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
noun:  (countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
noun:  (uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
noun:  (countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
noun:  (countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
noun:  (uncountable, Australia) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
verb:  (transitive) To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
verb:  (soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
verb:  (Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
verb:  (sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.

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